30 Apr
Tales from the Bizarro world
The wish list thing is working!
Today I got two gifts from the Amazon wish list I started. As items come off the list, I add more items.
They were much appreciated! I got the McCartney album CD and a dozen reporter’s notebooks, my favorite way to take notes while I’m [...]
29 Apr
Buffet of human fool
Yesterday I had an epiphany that Rev Wright might not be any more of a problem for President Obama than Billy Carter was for President Carter. To which there was an repeated chorus of “You can’t choose your relatives but you can choose your pastor.” I know I know. I meant that [...]
28 Apr
Om blesses our humble startup
Om Malik writes about SwitchABit, BetaWorks, Twittergram, John Borthwick and myself.
I have a meeting to go to, I’ll write a blog post about SwitchABit when I get back.
Short version: Excited!
Berkeley street at dusk
Click on the pic for details.
Is Rev Wright the new Billy Carter?
I’ve heard Rev Wright compared [...]
27 Apr
The mea culpas didn’t come
At best the MSM got the Wright story wrong, at best it was a mistake.
But if it were a mistake, there would have been some mea culpas today, after seeing the Wright interview, someone would have said they got it wrong, maybe even apologized for contributing to the vilification of [...]
26 Apr
Hope is what we have, Hillary
She did it again today, made fun of the idea of hope. She says that she and John McCain know how Washington works, and if hope had anything to do with it, they would have figured it out a long time ago.
She’s got to be smart, an astute politician, but [...]
25 Apr
Wright interview in audio
I was able to watch the Wright interview on adamdeyong’s Slingbox in Newport News, Virginia.
I recorded it, but now the video is available on the PBS website, and the audio is at the link below.
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/rss/media/BMJ-1203.mp3
Thanks for this very excellent program!
Tonight’s news
Bill Moyers Journal this evening will have Rev Wright [...]
24 Apr
The crazy baseball fan rule
Every so often a beer-drunk fan will run on the field during a baseball game causing a delay while the cops chase him down. Back in the days of streaking sometimes these fans would run out on the field naked.
You’ll never see one of these scenes on TV because there’s [...]
23 Apr
John McCain, spawn of the devil? You decide.
More fun, less stuff
Bush 1.0
Nancy & Newt siting on a couch
22 Apr
Spooky white plant
Dusty Miller is “grown primarily for its attractive silver-gray foliage…”
IRC for Pennsylvania Primary
I started a chatroom for tonight’s primay.
irc://irc.freenode.net/#PennsylvaniaPrimary
CNN, MSNBC say it’s too early to call but HRC is leading.
How to follow me on FriendFeed
I’m designating FriendFeed as my backup, when Twitter goes down, you can catch my stream, uninterrupted, [...]
21 Apr
A new strategy for Twitter outages
Okay, I’ve bit the bullet, I’m going to change what I do when Twitter is down.
1. When Twitter is down I will post updates to an RSS feed.
http://twitter.scripting.com/daveRss.xml
2. You may follow this feed in any tool that can follow an RSS feed. These include FriendFeed, Jaiku and of course [...]
